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Specialty doctor in older adults mental health

Portsmouth
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Doctor
Posted: 12 July
Offer description

Specialty Doctors will use their skills and expertise to achieve the best care for service users, with a focus on developing and providing supervision and oversight of the team and the assessment and management of complexity and severity. This includes:

*Ensuring evidence-based practice and service user-centred recovery principles to assess, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate all interventions provided by the ward team to promote recovery and independence.

Main duties of the job

*Providing management of service users presenting within the inpatient setting, including review of mental state, management of medication, inputting to mandatory reports, supporting the work of the MDT, and providing support for management of physical health concerns.

*Ensure there is cover for the care of patients agreed with other medical colleagues.

*Managing complex information, make formulations using a biopsychosocial model.

*Ensuring appropriate and effective engagement with carers and ward teams.

*Management of risk and weighing complex risk information to deliver care that is in the best interests of the recovery of the individual. Supporting the MDT in this by clear communication, containing anxiety, and maintaining hope for the patient.

*Ensuring the service works in line with care planning, risk management and safeguarding policies.

*Maintaining a focus on outcomes, both in terms of clinical outcomes and patient experience.

*Providing education, supervision and oversight of other colleagues working in the medical team, as appropriate and in line with experience.

*Supporting learning from good practice, incidents, complaints or concerns across the team

*To escalate any shortfalls in clinical practice in a timely fashion to the Consultant and if not available Divisional Medical Director.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.

Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

* Full GMC Registration
* MB BS or recognized equivalent
* For Specialty Doctor- 4 years full-time postgraduate training (or part-time equivalent), at least 2 of which will be in a specialty training Programme in psychiatry or as fixed-term specialty trainee in old age psychiatry. Or equivalent experience / competencies
* For doctors applying at Specialist Grade Doctor (former Associate Specialist role), 12 yeas post medical qualification experience, out of which at least six years must have been in psychiatry.

Employer details

Employer name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The Limes, St James' Hospital

Woodlands Walk

Portsmouth

Hampshire

PO4 8GB

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